Malignant Fate Sat by and Smiled

Today I learned Flowers cannot be kept alive Once you pick them from the ground They’re only meant to die Found God was never real And built myself a wall To keep out all I feel When the cancer came and leapt into your skull And dad walked in to hold me His tears far from consoling He said things get better still But dying’s part of living And living’s not something that we all do Today I learned Flowers cannot be kept alive Once you pick them from the ground They’re only meant to die I can try to keep it in Fall through the holes in my mattress Until I fit Into my shrinking soul I can be thankful Bow my head when I’m asked But I scraped my palms on the concrete And I’m falling on my ass Today I learned Flowers cannot be kept alive Once you pick them from the ground They’re only meant to die Today I learned Flowers cannot be kept alive Once you pick them from the ground They’re only meant to die